Hi,
I watched the following EasyEDA tutorial and found that this package is not so good with footprint creation.
EasyEDA PCB layout tuorial
At 9:34, the orator places pads consecutively at 0.8mm distance from each other…..to do this, he has to insert 0.8, 1.6, 2.4…..etc etc into the Y coordinate….thats a faff!
In Eagle, all you have to do is set your grid to 0.8mm…then simply copy and paste pads at 0.8mm spacing.
Also, at 10:09 when he places the perpendicular pads of the multi pin chip, he has to do maths based on multiple datasheet dimensions. Simple mistakes can come into this. In Eagle, you dont do any maths or datasheet reading……all you have to do is find the geometric centre of the first two columns of pads. –This is easily done using 0.005mm construction lines ( which are not even available in easyEDA)….then copy and paste the first two pad rows, then rotate them 90degs, then place them on the same centre as the first rows of pads.
In EasyEDA you’re going to need separate excel spreadsheets showing footprint calculations…not so in Eagle.
Would you agree that EasyEDA appears inferior to eagle in these ways?
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Does anyone know if EasyEDA can do multiple diff pair bus routing with length matching?